Revealing mistake: In the opening shot of the film, at Rockefeller Center, the shot begins at ground level and tilts up the building, but it was shot from the top of the building down to ground level and then reversed - all the people on the ground are walking backwards.
Desk Set (1957)
1 revealing mistake
Directed by: Walter Lang
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell
Revealing mistake: In the opening shot of the film, at Rockefeller Center, the shot begins at ground level and tilts up the building, but it was shot from the top of the building down to ground level and then reversed - all the people on the ground are walking backwards.
Richard Sumner: Tough question?
Bunny Watson: No... (chewing)... Tough roast beef.
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